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Charles Alfred Turple
Memorial 1870–1950; a later record reports birth in 1869
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Charles Alfred Turple is commemorated at R6-001 in the Pioneer Cemetery with his wife R. Jane Harris Turple and granddaughter Jean Marcella MacMillan. A 1947 Nova Scotia civil marriage record for their daughter Eleanor Mary Turple names her father as Alfred Charles Turple and her mother as Jennie Rebecca Harris, showing the different forms of their names used in family records. Contemporary evidence also places a Charles Turple in the Pictou Island fishing economy in 1933–34 and identifies Charles Turple as the Pictou Island ferry operator in July 1937. Ruth Munro later associated Charlie Turple with the Island ferry sequence involving Dot, Dinty and Jennie R.; the ownership and sequence of those vessels have not been established. The 1931 census records a Charles Turple aged fifty-seven, but that age does not align neatly with an 1869/1870 birth, so it remains uncertain whether that census entry refers to the same man.
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- NovaStory R6-001
- NS Archives 1947 marriage ID287569
- Department of Marine & Fisheries 1933–34 Pictou Island Charles Turple evidence
- 16 Jul 1937 contemporary ferry-operator report
- PIHS transportation research
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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Charles Alfred Turple & Catherine A. Turple
Selected person’s details ↑Family around Charles Alfred Turple · 2 generations · 5 of 5 people
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- Charles Alfred Turple ↔ spouse of Catherine A. Turple
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- Charles Alfred Turple → parent of Alexander D. Turple
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- Catherine A. Turple → parent of Alexander D. Turple
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- Charles Alfred Turple ↔ spouse of R. Jane Harris Turple
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- Charles Alfred Turple → grandparent of Jean Marcella MacMillan